skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't presume to know the intention behind the original comment that is now removed, and I did feel it went a bit too far in how harsh it was. It would also be presumptive to know what the article writer had in mind as well.

That said, and this might be an age thing, I'm not sure. When I see these computer science concepts and constructs that were figured out half a decade ago or more, which have their particular usefulness and limitations. It is hard for me to believe intellectual honesty motivating those kinds of posts.

It's the same recipe. Take something trivial, well understood, and write a post with a title that suggests something highly opinionated, and possibly contrary to what the reader might have experienced themselves. Then explain how in some use case, it doesn't fit very well. Then, maybe for the kicks of it, walk back on the original "click-baity" statement that got people to read it to begin with. And wrap it up as if there some deeper or more profound knowledge to be gained.

I will admit, I haven't read the article, because my bullshit detector started ringing. When you've seen a hundred of these, you don't need to read one more. But I'll take a quick look now, for the sake of it. Yes, pretty much the same recipe as I mentioned. Perhaps slightly less pointless than I had expected.
During today's short ladder immediately after Robinhood removed the ability to buy shares...

• There was 443k shares sold in a single batch at $120 at 11:24:36 AM EST.
• There was 347k shares sold in a single batch at $140 at 11:19:09 AM EST.

Someone took a total loss of $300M from the price an hour prior OR that is a $100M short sale.
How come they only had trouble executing buy GME orders? Honestly I hope RH is burned to the ground after giving up whoever coerced them into doing this.
Since Interactive Brokers isn't "free trading" (a la Robinhood), why would it also block buying GME stock?
Thanks, we really appreciate the support.
I agree that this is how it should be, but then we'll inevitably end up with a bunch morons who lost their money and then demand the government to right them. It's a lose-lose situation.
If they halted selling you know as well as I do that there would have been an immediate "Robinhood is holding my money hostage! They didn't let me sell and the price dropped, so they are responsible for my losses" lawsuit.

Which, lets be honest, would have more merit than a "I missed out potential gains" lawsuit.
a big thing with remote work is the worker can largely elect to do it.

i just don't consider roles that aren't remote, even if they are in my metropolitan area.

i'm not gonna waste 8 hours a day in an office, away from things and people who actually matter.
Seems that the user is worse off than the situation where the HFT had to play by everyone else's rules and list publicly at $9.95 though.
They are not allowed to use it for very much at all, but Citadel has regularly been fined for breaking rules.
Robinhood closing user positions in $GME against their will
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>People buying in late will have the most to lose and maybe the least understanding of what is going on. I mean, this story was a “breaking news” red banner on WashingtonPost.com yesterday. Not everyone buying GME today understands the social movement /r/wsb angle.

Actually that is impossible. This is a short squeeze. If you forget to sell your share then the short sellers are fucked because they still have to buy yours.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.553175...
Steve Kirsch prevents damage from Covid-19
Speed I guess? I have trouble putting your question in the context of this thread.
They do that already. The "public" markets are the stocks that non-accredited investors are allowed to trade.
Those can both be simultaneously true. Employers can be supportive while still trying to regain lost productivity.
React is not what lies at the end of the web development rainbow
I worry that companies are going to pull back from allowing WFH once the pandemic is over and dust settles.

It's been tolerated and embraced by organizations because their feared dip in productivity never surfaced -- in fact, some organizations found themselves more productive. But employees are taking less vacation and putting in more hours since their social options are greatly restricted due to the pandemic.

So what happens to the perception of productivity in late 2021/2022 when people start burning through all that banked vacation time and start socializing again instead of putting in an extra hour or two in the evening before bed? I could see employers panicking.
It might help the defense but ultimately the percentage of GameStop’s stock that is traded/held on RobinHood is very high (it is most of the market) and restricting trades on the platform is likely to cause serious losses to their customers. All the ingredients of a securities fraud case are present and the company stands to lose its entire business over the lawsuit.
Sure, if people wanted to pay to trade.
If that is the case, then it leads one to wonder why Robin Hood wouldn't come out and say so to avoid all the blowback they're getting. I suppose the obvious answer is that they don't want to burn bridges with Citadel.
If you want commission free trading then you need the HFT firms and payment for order flow. These firms hurt institutional investors much more than retail.
Oh yeah the real change will be that you now have to work when sick instead of taking the day off

Just work from home :D
I made no mention of the buyer's motives. You're not understanding or ignoring what I wrote.

The availability of vehicles in the 3rd world is determined in large part by the used car market in the first world (with south America depending more to north America and Africa/ME depending more on Europe) Exporters buy from auctions just like the rest of the used car dealers. Everybody steers clear of vehicles that have been used hard. The used car dealers steer clear of cars too old for prospective buyers to get a car loan on. The lower down the economic ladder you go the harder people are on vehicles and the more likely they are to keep them until they are totally clapped our and the more likely they are to sell private party. This means that the cars the dealers and the exporters want to buy are the upper middle class trade ins that were never smoked in that were kept clean and maintained, etc with the importers erring toward 10yo+ ones that the dealers don't want as badly.

The net result is that the vehicles of the upper middle class are over-represented in the set of vehicles that exporters steer themselves towards.

If every dumb yuppie in the US and Europe woke up tomorrow and decided they would only commute in blue cars from now on then in 10yr we'd have morons on the internet making up reasons that blue cars are more reliable and using their prevalence in the 3rd world as evidence.

Of course there's market specific models and locally made stuff available too but I'm not talking about those and that's not the avenue from which cars that have a 20k+ MSRP appear in those markets.
In order to process actual securities orders to actual exchanges, you'll need to file a metric ton of paperwork with your state government and the federal government, and comply with a lot of regulations.
They should be in jail, after being stripped of all their assets.
My country has new rule about minimal square space per employee. Capacity of our office is now reduced to 20%. 80% employees have to work from home, they do not fit into our office.

If this rule is permanent, companies may not be able to afford office space. WFH may become "new normal" bcos it is only thing company can afford.

In old days, flu spread in office like wild fire. Companies outsourced negative externalities (sick leave and sick holidays) to their employees. Now we have way more transmissible viruses and probably new regulations.
why the HFT should sell for $9.95 if the market price is $10 ?
I remember watching a very strange segment on American news about a man who owns a mattress and pillow company who was banned from Twitter because he continuously expressed his disbelief in the legitimacy of the election result of 2020, and was organizing various events along this theme.

From what I recall the 2016 election was frequently attributed to some vague accusation of hacking from Russia but the same standard was not applied at the time, nor is it applied today. The people espousing this view were eventually proven inconclusive in all the different inquiries into the matter, and they were far more influential than a man who sells pillows.

There seems to be a very disproportionate level of enforcement towards offenders on the social media platforms, and this seems to stem from the personal politics of the people working there.

If the employees at these companies had the opposite politics, I am quite sure the rhetoric around this issue would be framed in terms of authoritarianism. Are you not allowed to criticize your government anymore in the USA? I find that to be quite incredible.
It’s not front running. It’s reducing the chance of adverse selection in market making. Front running is highly illegal.
Hey i had 1k buy order on amc and game stop.

I did not authorize a cancel order.

I am not associated with any formal organization and i am an independent investor
Probably the web browsers. (I had some ideas of better ones, but they don't have it.) Some browsers (such as ELinks) have some good ideas, but many don't, and they are also incomplete in many ways.
Citadel != Citadel Securities.

Most clearing firms aren’t clearing GME or AMC anymore. It’s not just RH.
Why are we using Bill Gates as an example here? He is an extreme outlier that is far beyond the goal post of what most entrepreneurs would see success as. It doesn't require the seminal upbringing and kismet growth environment of Bill Gates just to get into entrepreneurship.
I think its more like suggesting private drivers might need a driver license as well even if most drivers plan to drive legally.

Are you suggesting the licensing and regulation does nothing? Do you think the big firms should be treated the same way as retail investors because crimes will be caught either way?

I'm in no way a proponent of big firms but I think its important to think about what kind of under regulated trades are happening.
While that does look nice it lacks what I consider the killer feature of the above device: e-ink display, and with it the benefits of reduced eye strain and enhanced battery life.
To be honest I ignored the whole topic until today.

But in my opinion the rationale is obvious: you buy a stock, that means you provide that company with liquidity that they can use to operate and grow their business. I guess especially in the startup scene VCs and investors are in high regard since they believe in the future value and perhaps also the product of a company.

Example: imagine I'm a hedge fund and put so much money into company x that the stock moves up. The company probably thinks I gonna fund their business for a few years (remember, stocks are long-term investments). Stock rises, they do a few risky choices. Suddenly I pull back my money. That would suck.

I think options and futures have reasonable functions, especially to stabilize investments and raw material purchase. But speculation can easily get unreasonable, you basically speculate with the liquidity/credit of other companies that actually care what they do. The irony is that futures have been invented to stabilize food production, I think since almost 1000 years. But probably you don't want a large hedge fund play with this stuff.

Also to put on another perspective. People are crazy about fairness on markets, even the super free US market has strict cartel laws. On the other hand large funds like Blackrock are so large, they have government-like powers. They even have the power to decide whether companies should stay or steer away from coal energy. That's even worse than a monopoly.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
How is HFT making money? It seems like they should make some kind of an arbitrage.
Yes, good points. I understand that it's not that simple in practice. But at least such laws would lay a foundation and then the details can be discussed better. Anti-trust laws are never black and white, but I would argue that we are better off for them.
Iirc they only stated that they closed "a" position. Others have run with that in a horrid game of telephone.
Turning off names like AMC and GME only means less revenue for RobinHood....
If adjust my GPS while I drive I get a fine, If eat while driving I get a fine but somehow it is OK to operate the model 3 while driving here in Europe. Why did this car get approved to operate on the road?
Facebook demoting political groups shows the importance of Section 230
> despite this not being a job

Yes and no - I'm only employed for 2 days a week, and earn enough in (recurring) donation income for this to be considered a part-time job. I also do some training/consulting around Python/pytest with my company (Bruhin Software), but that's usually only a couple of days per month.

> Using a virtual env. did not solve the issues for me.

That's weird, I'm not aware of any issues like that which wouldn't be resolved by using a virtualenv. You might want to try using qutebrowser's mkvenv.py which takes care of everything (or at least tries to):

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/i...
IANAL also, but I would imagine that they would need to represent themselves accurately to their investors at the very least. Perhaps they could be telling their investors something different privately?
I think deep down we all know that the best way to reverse white supremacy is to help PoC. Jews are overrepresented in investment banking relative to their population, so statistically giving hedge funds extra time to think by blocking buys helps to dismantle white supremacy.
> Github really needs to allow people to disable the "Pull Request" tab on repos, to reduce the stigma around not accepting pull requests.

It's more of a workaround than a solution, and depends on how much you trust GitHub Actions, but this one will autoclose all issues and/or PRs.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/repo-lockdown

> Best solution is to keep code somewhere other than github. Is sourceforge still around?

Aside from Sourceforge and self-hosting (simply via gitweb, or with GitHub-like features in Gitea, Phabricator), there are the big ones like GitLab and Bitbucket, cloud repo services on AWS and Azure, and smaller/indie services like Sourcehut (sr.ht), Launchpad, and RhodeCode.
I know that the programming language is only part of the story but I do wish more programming languages put a greater emphasis on readability and maintainability rather than writing. I find it particularly annoying when a language does not allow you call functions/methods with named parameters. E.g. it's possible in python, required in Swift and impossible in Golang.
Elon lives in an ideal world where everyone uses self driving, which includes auto-parking. (The auto-parking doesn't work that well; my friends' parents have repeatedly had to stop their Tesla from hitting adjacent cars, in a Costco parking spot).
ha ha ha ha ha. Ok. As a grizzled founder, who is becoming numb to the entitlement that is easy startups, easy funding, easy results.

I know many founders - and they were broke, broke, broke (and went broke to bootstrap). This 'finding about your parents' can make those straight out of college who don't stick with it feel better.

Reality is... entrepreneurship is an incredibly hard game that takes years of grinding away after hours, or eating away at your own savings and your free time.

Founders I know (including myself):
- One worked years on the side to grow it enough just to get seed. With newborn kids, then quit his CompSci job to live off his teachers wife salary for years.
- One was on foodstamps for 6 years, and kids on medicaid to pull his shop through
- One saved for years, and spent most of his money to get through the rough spots and is coming out the other side just now.
- One failed 4 times - each attempt taking a few years, entered bankruptcy to try on a 5th attempt.
- One lived at poverty means for years with a family while bootstrapping.

So.... lets stop the entrepreneurship is easy pr0n. It sucks so hard you'll hate your life. If blowing all your time and money getting there isn't worth the suffering you'll feel - don't try.
And the infrastructure, market access, lisences
>At some point the crypto needs to be converted into USD

It is not a truism that "at some point the crypto needs to be converted".

A stablecoin like DAI obviates the "stability" reason for converting back to fiat and getting further involved with the financial system, and as more people accept crypto for goods and services, there exist fewer reasons to convert out.

I'm not some BTC maximalist who thinks you'll be buying your groceries in crypto anytime soon, but for anything that can be transacted online, or between friends?

We already exist in the timeline where if I want to buy a thing, I can send (with some care) mostly anonymous value to someone to pay for the thing, and there's nothing any government or other person can do to stop it. This isn't some future goal, this is right here, right now.
Robinhood Customers Sue over Removal of GameStop, Others
Everyone should contact the SEC to make sure that they don't let them get it away with it this time (even if the SEC did the right thing in December).
bad advice. you only need to trade 1 share for the stock to become worthless. Holding doesn't ensure the price stays where it is.
> I don't think this was Robinhood's choice.

They sure made it sound like it was their choice. https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
These type of comments just feel naive to me. Maybe this hurts a few firms and causes losses for a few billionaires, but do people think there aren't other firms and other billionaires making a killing on this too?
Take this contrived presudocode example:

result = []
for frob in Frob.get_all(where=something) {
if frob.foo = expected {
result = {
frob: frob,
quux: Quux.get_all(where=some-query-using-frob)
}
results.append(result)

Basically, the idea is that you fetch some data and check some condition or do some calculation on it, then fetch more data based on this condition/calculation. This entire thing could be a single logical process.

The only reason there's a separation of concerns here is because some of this is done in the database and some in the application. Logically, its still part of the same calculation.

But the ORM hides this distinction and makes both the part that runs in the database and the part that runs locally look the exact same and super easy to intermingle. Worse still if you access properties on your ORM-result-object which actually trigger further queries to get. It looks like a field access, but is actually a database query. I've seen this cripple performance.

In many cases, if you step back and don't think about it in terms of application code, but rather the data access and transformations that you want to achieve, then it can be rewritten as a query (joining related data in as needed etc). At the very least, it makes you aware of what the boundaries are.

I'm not saying that scrapping the ORM will magically make the problems go away and I know people also write terribly intermingled application and database logic when using SQL, but at least the boundary is more explicit and the different sides of the boundary actually look different instead of just looking like application code.

My point isn't that there's a silver bullet, but that we can nudge and encourage people to write better code by how the languages/libraries/tools structure solutions.

I'm also not necessarily saying that we have to use SQL instead of an ORM, that's just one possible suggestion that I personally find works due to the mental separation. I'm sure you can design ORM's that make the boundaries more explicit, or design frameworks that encourage thinking about application boundaries more explicitly. Same as how I'm not actually suggesting to get rid of OOP, just... if most people's OOP is so-called "Bad OOP", then we need to think about how to improve OOP, because changing "most people" is just not going to happen.
> if they did, the "bailout" would be a complete writeoff

What? No it wouldn't.

Melvin faced cash calls. To raise cash fast they could (a) get it from their LPs (fat chance), (b) raise it from someone else or (c) sell other assets. The last option is a fire sale. You figure out what the fire sale discount would be, say it's 50%, and then use that to get (b).

I don't know what the terms of the bailout were. If I were structuring, I'd make it a loan with a super-high interest rate triply collateralized by their remaining assets. If they pay it back, I get the super high interest rate. If they default, I get the rest of their assets for 33¢ on the dollar. Between those two, the latter is frankly the higher-payoff scenario. (I would also require all short positions be closed out within N days, with the borrower's investors bearing the losses.)
What the hell are you on about? For once, you know nothing about me and second, you are attacking a strawman. I said nothing about there being only one legitimate reason to trade a stock.

I am fully aware that you can buy or sell stocks for a myriad reasons, including meming. What is against the rules is trading stocks with the express intent of manipulating the market and deliberately squeezing other participants. This is exactly what was being pushed by WSB.

If you want to engage in adult debate, please refrain from personal accusations and strawmen.
Show HN: r/WallStreetBets Webscraper
Given the current craziness around r/WSB I wanted to scrape the titles of posts to isolate stock ticker symbols as a basis for comparison with stock prices.

Accompanying blog post is here:
https://riomcmahon.me/content/yolo-scraper/
Its PR. Makes them look good. SEC isnt stepping in - so they are. A la Twitter.
> You cannot use the tools of the system to beat the system

I'm wondering if this is true. What would be some examples from history in which precisely this happened?
I'm not blaming you for that - those things are insanely hard to track down in a complex application spanning multiple programming languages and approaches to memory management... Unfortunately I have no idea where to start either :-/
Oddly enough, we also used BigBlueButton for a while and really loved the additional features like the whiteboard but also had to drop it because we were doing more support for BBB than our core product...
Platform Neutrality
With the curve extending across the top this looks quite different from the Kitt wheel, and as such quite different from an airplane yoke. I suspect this works much more like a wheel than a yoke in practice, but I would be interested in trying it out.
What about this should be illegal? Holding naked shorts? Or telling Robinhood to do something?